At 3/18/14 08:06 PM, Profanity wrote:
Fifth Element is a great film. How dare he criticize movies that were made for a different audience. I don't go around rating Cinderella or The Adventurers Down Under low because I don't enjoy kid's flicks.
I actually like sci-fi/action movies. And I'm judging the Fifth Element with criteria I believe to be fit for this specific analysis. You need to actually discuss the movies instead of trying to come up with a reason as to why I'd be wrong to express myself on these movies.
At 3/18/14 08:36 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:
I think you're cool people, Duff, but your opinions on movies are bad. The Expendables and the Fifth Element fucking rock, and Pineapple Express, Harold and Kumar, and Goldmember are pretty damn funny. Dead Snow, the Hills Have Eyes, and 28 Weeks Later are pretty decent, too.
That's definitely not what you said when I named my favorite movies in that other thread. You seem to fall back on this argument whenever I start naming things I don't like and that you do like :P Come on brother, we are better than this!
At 3/18/14 05:57 PM, Cereal wrote:
Everything by Christopher Nolan
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Memento and Inception were great movies :)
No, it's like saying you like great classic sci-fi movies but don't like their terrible, terrible sequels.
This.
At 3/18/14 08:25 PM, Jester wrote:
I thoroughly enjoyed The Fifth Element and Pineapple Express. You're certainly correct about Knowing, at least.
When I give 3 stars, it's still better then 1 and 2. But I'm sorry, I can't enjoy anything Seth Rodgen does. There is good comedy, and there is this guy... And I mean, I know it's cool to write accessible humor, and stuff that will appeal to a large audience, but his stuff is simplistic and moronic sex, poop, drugs stuff. I can't enjoy this stuff. I'm drawing the line there.
At 3/18/14 08:42 PM, Profanity wrote:
How could you not? Oh, right, you're a white. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle explores the reality of two Asian Americans living in a bubble of white privilege and coping with the realities of racism in white dominated society. Did you think White Castle was literally a fast food munchies tour?
I was expecting the Sekhem argument to come for Norbit, but not for Harold and Kumar, though. I'm surprised... but still disappointed. You still can't come up with an argument that won't just discriminate me, instead of actually talking about the actual subject. It's actually racist to assume that someone who's white can't be sensible to other ethnic group realities. Fuck you.
I'm not buying this argument, though. This movie is a slapstick crap, and if there is any kind of socially conscious content to this movie, it's drowned under misogynistic crap and crappy 2000's slapstick rehashed crap.
There are quite a few good movies that explore social issues related to ethnicity and racism. I'm thinking American History X, Life Is Beautiful (I think the Holocaust counts...), The Green Mile, Slumdog Millionaire, Hotel Rwanda, The Life Of David Gale, Incendies, Le vieil homme et l'enfant, Intouchables.
The Expendables is an absurd parody of the action genre that uses the exact same actors who launched the genre.
Directed by Sylvester Stallone.... I think you are giving too much credit to the guy. It's just a mish mash of every cliché of the genre, but most likely not in the form of a parody. And if it was indeed a parody, how would it be legitimate to milk it so much by making two sequels?
It doesn't have the tone of a parody, really. The audience to these movies is the same as to those who consume other action movies of the genre.
The Girl Next Door is a coming of age fantasy about privileged whites getting everything they wanted and still managing to fuck it up.
The guy who directed this movie also directed The Animal with Rob Schneider. Can you also come up with some kind of deep analysis of The Animal? The Girl Next Door is pretty much just a boring movie involving bad acting, about kids getting in "soooo freaky" adventures and yes, fucking up their life. But I don't think there is much depth to it.
The Fifth Elenent is just a great movie all around. Maybe you should explain why your childhood abuse caused you to hate good things.
I sometimes wonder how dumb people can get. Thanks for providing me precious info on stupidity and pseudo-intellectual delusions
No, you knew that by peppering your list with summer blockbusters like The Fifth Element you would get a few replies.
Gary Oldman's characters. Nuff said.